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By Frank Costigliola, Michael J. Hogan

ISBN-10: 0511609477

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Gaddis, to the contrary, has "tried to convey the full diversity" of the many other forces that helped determine American policy. Kolko gets his dismissal in a footnote (pp. " The conclusion has a somewhat longer discussion (pp. 357-58), emphasizing again the narrowness of an economic focus, the assumption (just like Combs) that a host of disparate revisionists subscribe to "the basic elements of the Williams thesis" (Barton Bernstein, Gardner, Kolko, LaFeber, Gar Alperovitz, David Horowitz).

He knows that the field has come under strong attack from without, as well as from within, and seems to agree with those diplomatic historians, like Melvyn Leffler, who call for a moratorium on theorizing. But Hunt is more confident than the other three authors that the "long crisis" in diplomatic history is coming to an end. " Hunt tries to rise above the babble of labels by aggregating rather than disaggregating the various approaches to diplomatic history. In this sense, his essay is an excellent primer, especially useful to those who are new to the field.

To justify that highly questionable assumption you need to resort to the highly 36 Bruce Cumings questionable "techniques" (methods, presumably) of "economic determinism" (not explained; it is assumed we all know what that is). If my angst shows through, perhaps it is because we assign these books to young students. And here is the logic a student would pick up: Revisionists are people who focus narrowly on economics and believe in the capitalist clique/plot theory, which can only be justified by the highly questionable methods of the capitalist clique/plot methodology.